Philadelphia police detained two men on Thursday after receiving a tip about a Hummer with armed men allegedly plotting to attack the city’s convention center, where officials were counting Pennsylvania ballots.
No one was reported injured, and police said they found weapons, including handguns and an AR-15, in the vehicle parked a short distance from the Philadelphia Convention Center. Both men were from Virginia, according to the Washington Times, and police said they each had a license to carry a gun in that state, but those licenses are not recognized in Pennsylvania.
Police sources told NBC10 that the men were making threats against the center, but it was not immediately clear what sort of charges, if any, the men will face.
Photos taken at the scene show the rearview mirror on the Hummer had QAnon decals, including a large “Q” and “#WWG1WGA,” which stands for: “Where we go one we go all.”
QAnon, whose #WWG1WGA hashtag is pervasive in some corners of social media, is a right-wing online movement that originated on 4chan message boards in October 2017 with posts by an anonymous person going by “Q,” who claimed to be a government official with top-secret intelligence clearance and who made a variety of generally evidence-free “bread crumb” claims about President Trump covertly battling a series of “deep state” plots and global conspiracies, including an alleged ring of sex traffickers that includes Democratic politicians, business leaders, and Hollywood elites.
Trump had a significant lead in Pennsylvania on Election Day, but it has dwindled over the last couple of days as mail-in ballots were counted. As of the most recent update, the president holds a lead of slightly more than 18,000 votes over former Vice President Joe Biden with about 163,000 votes still uncounted, according to CNN.
Trump and his campaign have alleged widespread fraud, and they have filed lawsuits in multiple battleground states, including Pennsylvania. They are requesting a recount in Wisconsin, a close race that was called for Biden.
